Ticket-holder



(NO Model.)

F. P. GHASE.

TIGKB'T HOLDER.

No. 424,642. Patent'edApr. 1, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

i FREDERICK F. CHASE, OF PLAINFIELD, NEVV JERSEY.W

TlCKET-HOLDER.

SI'ECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 424,642, dated April 1, 1890.

Application filed November 9, 1889. Serial No. 329,718. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERIOK F. CHASE, a citizen of the United States, residing in Plainfield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Ticket-Holders, of which the follow' ing is a specification.

In railway traveling much inconvenience is experienced both to passengers and conductors from the freqnent product-ion of tickets, and holders have been attached to the backs of seats and in other convenient places into which the travelers ticket can be inserted; but these holders have either been objectionable in appearance or liable to catch and injnre the clothing when passing into or ont of the seats.

The object of this invention is to furnish a reliable and inexpensive ticket-holder that can be easily attached to a seat-back or in any other convenient place, and which will not have any angles or projections to catch or in j nre clothing, and into which the ticket can be freely inserted and securely held by moving it along in the slot provided for it.

In the drawings, Fignre l is a plan view of the ticket-holder. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is a cross-section in enlarged size.

This ticket-holder is made of india-rubber, there being an opening between the two parts of the rubber for the reception of the ticket.

The rubber may be in one piece with a central slit cut in it and parallel with the face; bnt I prefer to make use of two strips ab of rnbber, that are similar and have holes near the ends for the passage of the attaching-screws o, and the adj acent faces of the rnbber should be rounding to form a month or slit for the easy reeeption of the ticket, and such ticket Will be firmly held by moving it edge-Wise to- Ward either serew c, the ticket passing to Where the rubber presses it firmly 011 each surface.

The screws made use of should have smooth and slightly-ronnding heads, and a plate or strip of metal d, perforated near each end, may extend from one attaching-screw to the other and by its elasticity aid in holding,r the ticket.

I elaim as my inventionfl The ticketholder formed of the two strips of elastic material a b, with a longitudinal taperin g slit between them in their middle portions, the metal strip (Z, and the attachingscrews passin g through the metallic and elastic strips at the end portions, snbstantially as set forth.

Signed byme this lst day of November, 1889.

FREDERICK F. CHASE. 

